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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






2. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






3. A strong pause within a line.






4. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






5. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






6. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






7. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






8. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






9. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






10. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






11. A character struggles against some outside force.






12. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






13. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






14. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






15. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






16. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






17. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






18. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






19. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






20. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






21. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






22. A four line stanza in a poem.






23. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






24. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






25. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






26. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






27. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






28. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






29. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






30. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






31. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






32. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






33. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






34. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






35. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






36. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






37. The time and place of a story or play.






38. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






39. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






40. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






41. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






42. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






43. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






44. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






45. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






46. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






47. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






48. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






49. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






50. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.







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